The Practice of Liberal Pluralism
Author: William A. Galston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780521549639
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Liberal Pluralism
Author: William A. Galston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-05-13
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 0521813042
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Liberalism and Value Pluralism
Author: George Crowder
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2002-04-30
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0826450482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKValue pluralism is the idea, associated with the late Isaiah Berlin, that fundamental human values are irreducibly plural and incommensurable. Ends like liberty, equality and community are intrinsic goods which can neither be ranked in an absolute hierarchy nor translated into units of a common denominator. If that is true, how can we choose among such values when they come into conflict in particular cases? In particular, what reason is there to justify the value ranking characteristic of liberal democracy, favouring personal autonomy and toleration? Recent commentators have seen value pluralism as undermining the traditional claims of liberalism to universal authority, rendering it at best no more than one political form among others with no greater claim to legitimacy. Against that view, George Crowder argues that a strong distinctive case for liberalism as a universal project is implied by value pluralism itself. Reflection on the elements of value pluralism yields a set of ethical principles, including respect for universal values, rejection of political utopianism, promotion of value diversity, accommodation of reasonable disagreement, and cultivation of civic virtues. Those principles are best satisfied by a liberal form of politics characterised by a strong commitment to personal autonomy, by policies of moderate redistribution and multiculturalism, and by constitutional restraints on democractic politics. This is the first book-length defence of liberalism on the basis of value pluralism, complementing and extending the work of Berlin and others.
Pluralism and Liberal Democracy
Author: Richard E. Flathman
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2005-09-14
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780801882159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTurns to the task of how to explain, justify, and encourage the concept, practice, and institutionalization of pluralism. By examining and analyzing the accounts and explanations of four philosophers, the author augments the theories of pluralism familiar to students and scholars of politics and political theory.
Liberalism and Pluralism
Author: Richard Bellamy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-01-04
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1134643764
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Liberalism and Pluralism the author explores the challenges conflicting values, interests and identities pose to liberal democracy. Richard Bellamy illustrates his criticism and proposals by reference to such topical issues as the citizens charter, constitutional reform, the Rushdie affair and the development of the European Union.
Anti-Pluralism
Author: William A. Galston
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2020-02-01
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 0300235313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar bargain between political elites and citizens. Whether today’s populism represents a corrective to unfair and obsolete policies or a threat to liberal democracy itself remains up for debate. Yet this much is clear: these challenges indict the triumphalism that accompanied liberal democratic consolidation after the collapse of the Soviet Union. To respond to today’s crisis, good leaders must strive for inclusive economic growth while addressing fraught social and cultural issues, including demographic anxiety, with frank attention. Although reforms may stem the populist tide, liberal democratic life will always leave some citizens unsatisfied. This is a permanent source of vulnerability, but liberal democracy will endure so long as citizens believe it is worth fighting for.
Democracy, Religious Pluralism and the Liberal Dilemma of Accommodation
Author: Monica Mookherjee
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2010-11-29
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9048190177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow should liberal democratic governments respond to citizens as religious believers whose values, norms and practices might lie outside the cultural mainstream? Some of the most challenging political questions arising today focus on the adequacy of a policy of ‘live and let live’ liberal toleration in contexts where disputes about the metaphysical truth of conflicting world-views abound. Does liberal toleration fail to give all citizens their due? Do citizens of faith deserve a more robust form of accommodation from the state in the form of ‘recognition’. This issue is far from settled. Controversies over the terms of religious accommodation continue to dominate political agendas around the world. This is the first edited collection to provide a sustained examination of the politics of toleration and recognition in an age of religious pluralism. The aftermath of the events of September 11th have dramatised the urgency of this debate. It has also surfaced, nationally and globally, in disputes about terrorism, security and gender and human rights questions in relation to minority communities. This volume brings together a group of new and established scholars from the fields of law and philosophy, who all present fresh and challenging perspectives on an urgent debate. It will be indispensable reading for advanced researchers in political and legal philosophy, religious and cultural studies and related disciplines.
Uncivil Society
Author: Richard Boyd
Publisher: Applications of Political Theory
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCivil society is one of the most hotly debated topics in contemporary political theory. These debates often assume that a vibrant associational life between individual and state is essential for maintaining liberal democratic institutions. In Uncivil Society, Richard Boyd argues-through a careful reading of such seminal figures as Hobbes, Locke, Burke, Mill, Tocqueville, and Oakeshott-that contemporary theorists have not only tended to ignore the question of which sorts of groups ought to count as "civil society" but they have also unduly discounted the ambivalence of violent and illiberal groups in a liberal democracy. Boyd seeks to correct this conceptual confusion by offering us a better moral taxonomy of the virtue of civility.
Cultural Diversity, Liberal Pluralism and Schools
Author: Neil Burtonwood
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-09-27
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1134217536
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith debates on the relationship between cultural diversity and the role of schools raging on both sides of the Atlantic, the time is apt for a philosophical work that shines new light on the issues involved and that brings a fresh perspective to a political and emotive discussion. Here Burtonwood brings the writing of British philosopher Isaiah Berlin to bear on the subject of multiculturalism in schools, the first time that his work has been applied to matters of education. Tackling the often-contradictory issues surrounding liberal pluralism, this book poses serious questions for the education system in the US and in the UK.
Can Liberal Pluralism be Exported?
Author: Will Kymlicka
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 0199240639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany post-communist countries in Central/Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union are being encouraged to improve their treatment of ethnic and national minorities using models. What are these models and will they work in Eastern Europe?
